Photoelectron anticorrelations and sub-Poisson statistics in scintillation detectors

The performance of scintillation detectors for x rays and gamma rays is limited fundamentally by the statistics of the scintillation light and the resulting photoelectrons. This paper presents a new experimental approach to studying these statistics by observing correlations in the signals from two...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment. - 1987. - 620(2010), 2-3 vom: 01. Aug., Seite 359-362
1. Verfasser: Bousselham, Abdelkader (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Barrett, Harrison H, Bora, Vaibhav, Shah, Kanai
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2010
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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